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The act of turning the palm or palmar surface of the forefoot downward.

Prostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; -- opposed to supine. Which, as the wind, Blew where it listed, laying all things prone. Byron.

The quality or state of being prone, or of bending downward; as, the proneness of beasts is opposed to the erectness of man.

d or disposed; to incline; to tend. [R.] Shak. We shall propend to it, as a stone falleth down. Barrow.

One who makes a proposal, or lays down a proposition. Dryden.

To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants. Evelyn.

The act of prostrating, throwing down, or laying fiat; as, the prostration of the body.

To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.

A mathematical instrument for laying down and measuring angles on paper, used in drawing or in plotting. It is of various forms, semicircular, rectangular, or circular.

birds whose young at first have down on the pterylæ only; -- called also Gymnopædes.

Having down upon the pterylæ only; -- said of the young of certain birds.

point of suspension of the lower jaw. -- Pterygoid process (Anat.), a process projecting downward from either side of the sphenoid bone, in man divided into two plates, an inner and an outer. The posterior nares pass through the space, called the pterygoid fossa, between the processes.

Having nearly the whole surface of the skin covered with down; dasypædic; -- said of the young of certain birds.

Very minutely downy.

The down of plants; a downy or villous substance which grows on plants; pubescence.

A covering of soft short hairs, or down, as one some plants and insects; also, the state of being so covered.

ed with great detestation. As Jesus at meat . . . many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples. Matt. 1x. 10. How like a fawning publican he looks! Shak.

numerous species of beautiful humming birds of the genus Eriocnemis having large tufts of downy feathers on the legs.

re equally pulled and hauled to do that which they are unable to do. " South. -- To pull down, to demolish; to destroy; to degrade; as, to pull down a house. " In political affairs, as well as mechanical, it is easier to pull down than build up." Howell. " To raise the wretched, and pull down the proud." Roscommon. To…

One who, or that which, pulls. Proud setter up and puller down of kings. Shak.